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Dancheong is a traditional colouring that represents Buddhist origin and positive emotions, such as happiness. They are usually seen on traditional building–Hanok. Korean Dancheong has distinctive characteristics from other East Asian countries as they have strong complementary color contrast and brightness contrast. Most patterns consist of dragons, phoenix, crane, flower, Read more…

It’s time for another Squid Game post! While I was scrolling through Instagram, this post by an account called thefilmzone caught my eye because it pointed out different artistic references in Squid Game. I would have never known before watching the show, so I think it’s really cool that the Read more…

Ever since I learned how to do some traditional chinese paper cutting while spending a middle school summer in China, I’ve been fascinated by the art of paper cut. In a sense, it’s one of the most limited media in art: you have only paper and scissors as your tools. Read more…

One of my favourite videos on the internet is this one: a presentation of all of the images that are on the golden records that are currently hurtling through space at 30,000 mph on the Voyager 1 and 2 missions into interstellar space and the unknown. The golden record didn’t Read more…

Bujo is an acronym for bullet journaling, which is journaling on a bullet journal note. During the quarantine, there has been an increase in the participants of bujo culture. To cope with sluggishness and lack of activities to do, many people turned to art–more specifically, artistically planning out their day Read more…

With tools like Adobe Photoshop and Procreate, animating 2D or 3D films is easier than ever; even I, as an inexperienced designer and artist, can scour the Internet to create a piece somewhat interesting. Yet all of this modern technology had to start somewhere. In the 20th century, Disney was Read more…

Since we are currently being affected by the storm (yes, again) and working on Dada, I want to share the work of the photographer and writer, Dylan Lewis. Dylan Lewis was born in Richmond, Virginia. He attended the University of Georgia as an MFA student and is currently living in Read more…

My absolute favourite book (and podcast!) currently is John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed – a collection of essays that ranks things of the Anthropocene (the era of humans) on a five-star scale. In the book, there’s a chapter on the Lascaux cave paintings in France. These paintings were discovered in Read more…

I’m sure everyone has heard about Squid Game, right? I binge-watched the series this week, and I thought that besides its enthralling plot, the set design was also amazingly done. In the video, Chae Kyung-sun, the art director of Squid Game, explains the reasoning behind the way the set was Read more…

Born and raised in Korea, whenever I was studying Chosun–the last dynastic kingdom of Korea–history, we covered Gim Hong Do–one of the greatest artists in South Korea. Below are some of his pieces that I like the most. As one can refer from the artworks, he specialized in drawing the Read more…